In the wake of the devastating DCMS report, Dave Brailsford has to go and Chris Froome needs to stop racing until he clears his name

It might seem incongruous given recent events but late in 2012 Dave Brailsford took soundings among journalists as he sought to “reboot” Team Sky in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal. I was among those whose views he asked for. At the time Brailsford was going through something of a crisis over quite how to implement the team’s zero tolerance of past doping offences and the connections with those in the milieu who had a doping past.